From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 5 16:16:35 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BF1F106567A for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:16:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bcr@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mxout2.bln1.prohost.de (mxout1.bln1.prohost.de [213.160.84.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91C678FC0A for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:16:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Benedicts-Macbook-Pro.local (p508D79C3.dip.t-dialin.net [80.141.121.195]) (authenticated bits=0) by mx1.bln1.prohost.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id oA5G5c8h018776 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 17:05:38 +0100 Message-ID: <4CD42B55.70004@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:05:41 +0100 From: Benedict Reuschling Organization: The FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; de; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org References: <20101105153958.GA54105@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20101105153958.GA54105@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 OpenPGP: id=4A819348 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Null-Tag: 6f6a9cf2322611e5564f97afa6352e2d Cc: Subject: Re: new man page for GAMS? X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: bcr@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:16:35 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > Hi > > I'd like to write a man page for GAMS. > For those not familiar with GAMS, it > stands for Guide to Available Mathematical Software, > and is a standard classification system of maths > software - http://gams.nist.gov/ > > Is it a good idea to just convert GAMS index, e.g.: > http://netlib.org/slatec/gams > into a GAMS man page? > > It is not directly related to the base OS, but > affects lots of ports under ports/math, and > probably some under other categories. > > thanks > anton > Hello Anton, Not all users of FreeBSD use these math-ports and therefore it is not a "must-have" part of the base system. So I think a man page is not such a good idea. Nevertheless, for people doing mathematical work with FreeBSD it might be a good idea to have an article explaining what kind of software is available on FreeBSD and some of the terminology (GAMS index) mentioned in the links you provided. Are all the packages mentioned in the first link available as ports? If not, perhaps some of them can be ported to FreeBSD as a result. If you need help with such an article, I can help you with the SGML and formatting. Regards Benedict Reuschling - -- Benedict Reuschling Mail: bcr@FreeBSD.org Blog: http://benedict.reuschling.name/blog The FreeBSD Documentation Project FreeBSD German Documentation Project - https://doc.bsdgroup.de -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkzUK08ACgkQTSZQLkqBk0h2zgCgqagiwMevlv/nxPoepJH+qHai GMcAoNEnDT8/j9ODN9fbd4SgRp/9AkEt =zyxS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----